Mercury Seven - NASA's Astronaut Group 1

Mercury Seven - 

NASA's Astronaut Group 1


When?

At a press conference in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the Mercury Seven to the public. The press and public soon adopted them as heroes, embodying the new spirit of space exploration. Each one (except Slayton, who was grounded because of a previously undiscovered heart condition, but later flew as a crewmember of the Apollo Soyuz Test Project) successfully flew in Project Mercury. 

Why?

During the five-year life of the Project Mercury, six human-tended flights and eight automated flights were completed, proving that human spaceflight was possible. These missions paved the way for the Gemini and Apollo programs as well as for all further human spaceflight.


Mercury Seven

The "Mercury Seven" were 

Scott Carpenter, 

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., 

John H. Glenn, Jr., 

Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, 

Walter M. Schirra, Jr., 

Alan B. Shepard, Jr., 

and Donald K. "Deke" Slayton.


Selection Committee 

The selection procedures for Project Mercury were directed by a NASA selection committee, consisting of Charles Donlan, a senior management engineer; Warren North, a test pilot engineer; Stanley White and William Argerson, flight surgeons; Allen Gamble and Robert Voas psychologists; and George Ruff and Edwin Levy, psychiatrists.


Selection Process 

The committee recognized that the unusual conditions associated with spaceflight are similar to those experienced by military test pilots.

Each candidate endured even more stringent physical, psychological, and mental examinations, including total body x-rays, pressure suit tests, cognitive exercises, and a series of unnerving interviews



Compiled by 

Ms Naresh kuwar 




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